Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.

I won't stand for this Daedalus and Icarus erasure.

And for writing her good friend as the hero of a post-apocalyptic book. (I love The Last Man.)

Oh my god, yes!

In a similar vein, see Ira Levin's THE STEPFORD WIVES. It's obviously not nearly as far ahead of its time as FRANKENSTEIN, but it does nail how techbros and their cultish hangers-on make terrible husbands.

Mary Shelley doesn’t get enough credit for being basically the only author prodigy as well as essentially inventing goth.

my favorite book

🔥🔥🔥

2nd startup, failed AI girlfriend

But but but.... the 'technology' (i. e. Creature) only goes to the bad as a consequence of its bad reception and treatment by nasty people. So if we're all really kind to AI and CyberTrucks, they will ..... still be crap, OK forget it.

Perfectly explained